Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-29
COY. MARMADUKE'S DEATH.
HIS CAREER AS, A SOLDIER AND A
 STATESMAN.
Engaged in More Than 100 Battles-A Prisoner of war-Life in Europe-ven- lures in the Newspaper Profession-His Successor Sworn In.


 Prisoner of war-Life in Europe-ven-
 lures in the Newspaper Profession-His
 Successor Sworn In.
 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. z9-Governor Marmaduke died at the executive mansion last night at 9:30 o'clock, surrounded by his brothers and their families. The governor spent last week in this city, and during his visit contracted severe and dangerous cold. He returned to Jefferson City on Friday. On Saturday he was confined to his bed, and by Monday the disease had de- veloped into a case of pneumonia. Drs. Davison and Young were called to attend him, but they found his condition hopeless. Dr. Griffiths was telegraphed for, and, on arriving yesterday afternoon and making a diagnosis, he promptly said the governor could not survive the night. At o'clock Darwin Marmaduke, warden of the peni- tentiary, and Col. Leslie Marmaduke, with their wives and children, were summoned to the bedside of the dying executive. By g o'clock the quick labored breathing of the ratient indicated the rapid approach of death. and half an hour later Missouri's governor had passed away. Lieutenant Governor Warehouse was quietly inducted into the vacant office to-day by the chief justice of the supreme court.
 John Sappington Marmaduke was born in Saline county, Mo-, March IA, 1883, his father, Meredith M. Marmaduke, afterward governor of Missouri, having emigrated from Virginia in 1893 Jobn s. Marmaduke, at the age of 17, entered Yale college, with drawing two years later to enter Harvard. In 1853 he was appointed to West Point cadetship, and four years later he received his commission as lieutenant in the Seventh s,~f~ Johnston's force, operating against the Mormons. In 1860 he returned to Mis- souri, and took the side of the Confed- eracy, raising a company of state guards and becoming colonel of the regiment. Soon tiring of the state service he was given a commission by Jefferson Davis, and assigned to Gen. Hardee's staff. By the end of 1861 he was colonel of the Third Confederate i'm fantry. At Shiloh he opened the battle, fought desperately for two days, and won a wound and a promotion. When he recov- cred he was a brigadier general Early in 1862 he relieved Gen. Rains in command of the northwest Arkansas division, and until 1864 he was engaged in active operations in that state and in Missouri.
 The battle at JenKins' Ferry and the cam paign against Steele gave him another pro- motion to the rank of major general, and he manded division of cavalry when Price marched into Missouri. He was surrounded and captured after hard fighting on Oct. 24, not far from Fort Scott, and until August, 1895, he was a prisoner of war. So active had been his service in the west that at the time of his capture his men declared that he had fought in more than 100 battles.
 On his release he spent year in Europe, returning to Missouri to go into commis- sion house. He retired from this in 1869. For two years he superintended the southern agencies of the Life Association of America Then he tried his hand in the newspaper field, buying all interest in The St. Louis Journal of Commerce, and establishing The Evening Journal in the same city. The H. 'ustrated Journal of Agriculture was en- other of his ventures. Next he became an office holder, serving in succession as secre- tary of the state board of agriculture, and as railroad commissioner, first by appoint ment by the governor and afterward when elected to the office for term of four years He was candidate for governor of Missouri l in 1880, but was defeated. In 1884 he was again a candidate and was elected. His term would have ended in 1889,